Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ancient Greek prosody, a foot consisting in its fundamental form of five syllables, the first and fourth of which are short, and the second, third, and fifth long.
  • noun [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of nematoid worms, of the family Strongylidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Pros.) A foot of five syllables (usually � -- -� -).

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  • noun poetry A metrical foot of five syllables.

Etymologies

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Latin, from Ancient Greek.

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